Oleksandr Sych, born on July 16, 1964 in Dert village of the Rokytnivskyi district of the Rivne region (Ukraine) in the family of collective farmers of Maksym Sych and Eva Sych (Chubyk)

Education

He received his eight-year education in the native village, secondary education – in Rokytnivska secondary school # 2, higher education – at the Historical Faculty of the Ivano-Frankivsk state pedagogical institute named after V. Stefanyk (1981-1986) and at the Faculty of Law of the Precarpathian University named after V.Stefanyk (1996-1999) In 2000 Mr. Sych spent one semester of study at the doctoral program of the Ukrainian Free University (Munich, Germany). In 2008 he defended his dissertation for the degree of candidate of historical sciences

Employment

1986-1987

organizer of extracurricular educational work, teacher of history and social sciences of Kamyanka secondary school in Rokytnivskyi district (Rivne region)

1987-1989

military service

1989-1995

head of the Stock Library in Yaremche city, history teacher at the local schools and the chairman of the education workers trade union in Yaremche

1993-1994

instructor for Youth Affairs of Yaremche city executive committee

1994-1996

deputy head of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional Education Department

1996-1998

assistant consultant of the Ukrainian deputy

1998-2000

legal consultant of the publishing house “Lileya-NV” (Ivano-Frankivsk city)

2000-2001

assistant of the Philosophy Department of the Ivano-Frankivsk State Technical University of Oil and Gas (IFNTUOG)

2000-2002

associate professor of the Department for Public Administration (IFNTUOG)

2002-2005

deputy mayor of the Ivano-Frankivsk city

2005-2010

associate professor of the Department for Public Administration (IFNTUOG)

2010-2012

head of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional council

2012-2014

the Ukrainian deputy, first deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Science and Education

2014

Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine

2014-2015

doctorate in the Institute named after I. Kuras for Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

2015

elected as the head of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional council

1994-1998

The deputy of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional council in the following terms: 1994-1998, 2006-2010, 2010-2012 and re-elected in 2015

since 1991

in the Ukrainian scout organization "Plast"

2004-2006

elected the head of the national Plast council

since 2006

member of the all-Ukrainian Association "Svoboda"

Works

Mr.Sych is the author of 8 books, 35 scientific articles, more than 150 journalistic articles, editor of 10 scientific collections and editions

Family

Married. His wife – Halyna Sych (born on October, 5 1965)

Children: Olviya Gusak (Sych) and Bohdan Sych

He is the citizen of Ukraine since 1991 and lives in Ukraine constantly